The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-02

visit to Mississippi He viii be IN that
State until the first week in May. lie Will
then attend the annual meeting or the Blsh-
ops in Nashville.
Col. J. Fl. Rice, State Superintendent OF
Education, has accepted an invitation to at
tend the commencement OF prosperity hlgh
School. Col, Rice will deliver an address
Friday, June 10, 1887.
Thirty-6ve car loads of beef cattle have
been shipped from Anderson TINS season TSe
over the Savannah Valley railroad This
was a business unknown in Anderson before
the advent of the stock law.
Rev. A. Coke Smith of Wofford College,
will preach the commencement sermon, and
Prof. F. c. Woodward, of WoHord College,
will deliver the literary address at the ap-
preaching commencement in June.
The mail service from Cade's to Prospect
and Johnsonyille is in very unsatisfactory
condition. The citizens living in these 10
calities are making great complaint about
the slow facilities afforded them OF getting
their mail matter.
A sensation has been created at Ridge
Spring by the reported discovery of an cleo
trio pit (Nr. William Merritts flower pitt,
which cured Mr. Merritt, who has for four
teen years been dreadful sufferer from
chronic rheumatism and dyspepsia.
A cutting affray occurred about four miles
below Prosperity on last Saturday evening
between Banks Dominick and Dan Lever.
Dominick was severely if not fatally cut,
the knife penetrating to the hollow in the
region of the heart or lungs. Lever Is not
much hurt and is able to be out.
Two stores in Campbellton, Hampton
county, were destroyed by fire last Thurs
day night. One was occupied by W. X.
Brabham and the other, belonging to Mrs.
Elizabeth Barber, was unoccupied. Mr..
Brabham lost his entire stock, said to have
been worth $1,000. The buildings were
valued at about $500 each.
A circular has been printed containing a
prospectus of the First Annual Interstate
Farmers Encampment, to be held at spar
tanburg, beginning Tuesday, Aug. 2, and
continuing until Saturday, Aug. 6. The en-
campment is to be under the auspices OF the
Patrons of Husbandry of Alabama, Tennes-
see, Georgia, North Carolina and South
Carolina.
A brutal murder was committed near
Green Pond on Monday afternoon on the
person of e. A. Morgan. The person who
committed the murder must have been very
close to the murdered man, as the fire from
the gun singed his hair and burnt the collar
of his coat. He was shot from behind, and
a hole was made in his head that would hold
an egg. Pieces OF his jawbone were picked
up at least thirty feet from his body.
A special meeting of the Sinking Fund
Commission has been called for Thursday
May 5. At this meeting the 1900 acres of
land which was bid for by the Berkeley
Land and Stock Company at the last meet
ing of the Sinking Fund Commission, will
be sold. There will probably be number
of bids to be considered. The peculiar loca-
ton of this tract of land makes it more suit
able for stock raising than for any other
purpose.
A colored woman, living about five miles
from Conway, in the Pot Bluff section of
Horny county, was instantly killed last Fri
day afternoon by lightning The atmos-
phere seemed to be sIlrcharged with electric
ity, and when the rain cloud came over
from the west the electrical display was
sublime. This woman was sitting near the
hearth, and the lightning flashed down the
chimney and enveloped the woman in the
flame and passed through the floor into the
ground beneath
The following is list Of candidates for
appointment to the United States Naval
Academy from the Seventh Congressional
district: Hugh w. Fraser, Georgetown; I.
Davis Porcher, Berkeley; Raphael S. Noise,
Sumter; Poinsett Pringle, Georgetown
Frank Parker, Georgetown; Sullivan I.
Sparkman, Georgetown: Robert Fishburne,
Berkeley; E. Mikell Whaley, Jr., Edisto
Island; Augustine S. Buyek, Orangeburg
William w. Clement, Berkeley; Messrs.
Bowman and Geraty, Berkeley.
Capt w T. Wilkins, from the upper part
Of Spartanhurg county, reports that two
brothers by the name of Crawford have
been behaving badly in his neighborhood
They went over into Polk county. n. c.
and married two respect& DIE girls, and after
living with them a short time they sent
them back to their fathers and left. They
also contracted debts and failed to settle tn,
same. 1t is reported that one of them has
a living wife in Union county. The mer
are 40 to 30 years old, and one of them has
but one eye. Their profession seems to b.
cutting tombstones out of soapstone OF
other soft rock.
Edgefield Advertiser: Mr.. Felix Walkers
sons, living with their father six mile.
above Edgefeld, while out fishing one night
of last week, were attacked by an animal
having the general appearance of a dog
which they succeeded in killing, after strik
ing it several times with gigs, by well
directed thrust i'll the forehead The ami
NAL, from the description given, must have
been beaver, although we had supposed
that race long since extinct in our county
for our Oldest inhabitant remembers no
thing of this animal, although we have
several streams, Beaver dams, named for it
Mr.. Walker has the skin, and the short ears
blunt nose, small forefeet, large fat hinC
feet and ovate or fan-shaped tail-all tally
exactly with the natural history description
of beavers. But evidently this is the las
of the race in this part of South Carolina
and no doubt he felt like lone who tread
alone some banquet hall deserted"